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Only after completing these requirements and receiving approval can a patient be added to the transplant waitlist.

From Science Daily • Jul. 1, 2026

Another feature of the SpaceX trade deserves notice: Only about 5% of the company’s shares were available for trading, a remarkably thin “float” for an IPO.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026

Only a trickle of foreign visitors, many of them Cuban-Americans bringing supplies to family members, are coming to the island.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026

Only Lineker, with six, has scored more for England.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2026

Only now, Clare noticed a chipmunk trailing at his heels.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman